Wireshark is an open source Network Protocol Analyzer under GNU License.
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Wireshark does not capture second IP address traffic
I have interface with ip address: 192.168.1.3.
I'm adding a second ip address: 192.168.1.4 to that interface using: ip address add
Then from other computer (192.168.1.10), I ping those address & both responded correctly.
I want to capture traffic…

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In WireShark, how can I filter results so that it shows only a single line per source?
I'm using WireShark to find any systems pointed to an old system we're decommissioning and rather than showing the same IP 1,000 times I'd like to use a filter that will only show each IP source once.
Can somebody tell me how I can go about doing…

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server is not responding on SYN packets
On the attached tcp dump, the first two SYN packets (#21800 and 21801) came to the server, however SYN ACK was sent for the second SYN. Is that correct behaviour? My understanding is that the client is trying to establish two TCP connections from…

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Selecting a TCP stream with most bytes transferred in Wireshark
I have captured traffic in Wireshark and I want to follow the TCP stream with most bytes transferred in the traffic.
After opening Statistics > Conversations and sorting by Bytes column I filter the traffic by the two hosts that have most traffic…

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Dumpcap on remote linux interface
I want to capture packets on a remote linux interface using dumpcap. I have observed that there is a command - dumpcap -i rpcap:/// and dumpcap -i TCP@:
But when trying to execute the later command the terminal says that…

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Why do I see so many ssh packets in only a couple seconds?
I am learning how to use tshark so I can better understand networking. As a user the protocol I most often use day to day is SSH. So I thought I'd start a capture filter on ssh packets on my server and see what happens. I ran the following…

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FTP Connection Suddenly hanging on 'waiting for welcome message'
We've had our FTP server (Proftpd) running on Ubuntu Server 12.04 for over 12 months now with no connection issues. In the last few days there have been issues with slow connections to the server, with clients reporting their FTP client, Filezilla,…

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Wireshark seems to ignore my filters
I'm trying to make use of Wireshark 1.10.6 for Windows and I want to only capture the traffic to port 443 (to diagnose some weird HTTPS problems I'm having). So I open Capture -> Capture Filters... and in there I delete all filters and then add one…

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Can I capture ISP SNMP information with Wireshark?
I am trying to do some heavy digging into SNMP, BPI+, ISP networks. Since wireshark can be used to capture network data, would I be able to use it to remotely capture my ISP SNMP agent information and view information being sent through it? Would…

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NFSv3 Asynchronous Write Depends on Block Size?
I am trying to figure out if my NFSv3 deployment is performing SAFE asynchronous writes. I suspect that it is doing strictly synchronous writes, as I am getting poor performance in general. I used Wireshark to look at the 'stable' flag in write…

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"tshark: There are no interfaces on which a capture can be done" in Amazon Linux AMI
My goal is to capture packets with tshark in Amazon Linux AMI. While typing tshark in the command line there's an error:
"tshark: There are no interfaces on which a capture can be done"
How to implement the solution from Wireshark setup Linux for…

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Wireshark not found after installing RHEL 5.5
After installing Wireshark in RHEL 5.5 (32bit) with following command:
yum install wireshark
Wireshark not found:
[root@localhost ~]# wireshark bash:
wireshark: command not found
What do I do?

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trace ftp file data in wireshark
I am trying to analyze ftp traffic in Wireshark. I can see commands like Request: List, PORT.
But after FTP
Response 150: Opening data channel for directory list.
what I see immediately is
Response 226: Transfer OK
where is a list of files? Why I…
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Source and Destination Packets on Wireshark Relative or Absolute?
New in Packet Analysis.
Sniffing on the Ethernet device of my computer.
Does the Source and Destination columns on Wireshark tell the source and destination from where the packet was originated and its final destination or do they tell about their…

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UDP sends 6 additional packets in Wireshark
I am sending UDP packets using ttcp to another machine which is connected via a Cisco router. However, when I analyze the packets sent in Wireshark, there is a UDP packet sent before the payload packets are sent, and 5 packets sent after the…

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